Wavertree (ship)

The Wavertree at her berth in New York

• Southgate

The Wavertree (ex - South Gate ) is a 1885 built in England Windjammer and is now a museum ship at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York. It is the largest surviving iron full-rigged ship.

History

The ship was commissioned in 1885 as South Gate of the shipping company RW Leyland & Company of Liverpool. Even during the construction at the shipyard Oswald Mordaunt & Company in Southampton the ship went into the possession of the shipping company Chadwick, Pritchard, which used them in the years 1886-1888 in the India trade. On these trips was their homeward charge transported in large part from jute.

1888 was followed by a sell back to the shipping company RW Leyland & Company, which began in the ship over the following 23 years primarily on global Tram prices. On a trip to Valparaiso in September 1910, a bad weather at Cape Horn, the South Gate damaged so badly that she returned for repair to the port of refuge, Montevideo ( Uruguay). During the subsequent trial, to complete the journey, broke out in November 1910 at Cape Horn the mainmast, five sailors were seriously wounded. Then she ran back to the Falkland Islands, which it reached in December. In April 1911 they brought the ship as Lagerhulk for wool to the southern Chilean port of Punta Arenas. Some 37 years later, in January 1948 their fate seemed to be sealed first, she was towed to the demolition to Buenos Aires. Instead acquired Alfredo Numeriani the Wavertree and left them to the sandy Light rebuild.

1968 acquired the South, founded in New York two years earlier Street Seaport Museum unrigged the ship. Today the Wavertree is part of the South Street Seaport Museum in New York. The Wavertree emerged as iron full-rigged ship. She was one of the last great sailing ships from this material, and is now the largest preserved of its kind Your name is derived from the same district of Liverpool.